Business Phone Systems and Their Advantages Over Regular Phone Systems for Large Corporations

Lucille Wood
advantages
business
June 13, 2022
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Business Phone Systems and Their Advantages Over Regular Phone Systems for Large Corporations

Business phone systems have become a vital tool for large corporations. Before technologically advanced phone systems were developed, businesses had to rely on traditional phones. Traditional telephones are lacking the essential features required for business functions because today large corporations are often doing business not only nationally, but all over the world.
A trustworthy business phone system help corporate management and their staff remain in contact with the people who are most important to the success of the company. High tech business phones such as VoIP PBX systems are much more flexible than regular phone systems. By using such business phone systems, corporations are able to take advantage of a number of features that will help them make the most out of business communications. Such features can include: call conferencing, fax to email, automatic call distribution, voicemail, find-me/follow-me, call forwarding, auto attendant, call conferencing, voice to email, music on hold, custom-menus, and more. To obtain all of these features using a traditional phone system, a company would have to purchase and set up the necessary hardware and complicated networks which would be quite expensive.
With a business telephone system, you will receive everything required to have an effective communication system. The essential infrastructure is maintained at service provider’s site and the VoIP features are delivered by the hosted server using high speed Internet or dedicated telephone networks. All of these features that come with the system at cost-efficient monthly charges. As well, a number of extensions can be managed from an existing telephone connection. You can communicate with clients from distant locations because you will be able to use the effective call forwarding feature. Employees working from another location can actually become an extension of the corporate office system.
Another advantage of the business telephone system is its cost-efficiency. For instance, rates for outgoing calls to local and long distance locations are cheaper than using traditional phones. The use of virtual phone numbers can be set up at preferred locations without requiring a physical infrastructure. As well, you have the ability to create call queues, listen to and delete email, and view call detail records.
When you take advantage of a business telephone system, you have the ability to organize calls according to you business preferences and separate business calls from personal calls so that personal calls will never interfere with business communications. You will not have to worry that the people who are connected to your company will not be able to reach you.
When it comes to comes to corporate business operations, the dependable and flexible business phone systems are essential to ensuring that the business operation remains productive and efficient. When a larger corporation uses a business telephone system, they will run their company more productively and the business will be a much more organized. The right business telephone system will help a company save money, improve efficiency, and help make the company more profitable. Business phone systems have become an essential business tool for every large corporation.…

Lucille Wood
bisexual
corporations
April 24, 2022
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Corporations Value Their Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Employees

Monday morning, 1991. Frank and I settled into our shared office at the San Francisco headquarters of a major corporation. We were still flying high from an inspiring Pride Weekend. Sipping his latté, he glanced at his monitor, “Julie! Look at the Intranet!” I quickly logged into the corporate Intranet, a newly deployed technology tool, and read, “This Company should never hire bull daggers, dykes (sic) and faggots.” I read on. “I was humiliated to see our vehicles on the nightly news festooned with pansies and dykes.” And then, “How did these fairies and male ladies (sic) get hired in the first place?” and “I was humiliated by our company supporting this sideshow of misfits.”
Like moths to flames, Frank and I logged on each successive morning as hundreds of similar messages rained down, each one digitally signed with the author’s name and department. When remarks escalated to threats, we suspected that the posters didn’t realize they could be identified, since Intranets were so new. Comforted by assumed anonymity, the attacks went free-style. When our newly-formed LGBT Employee Resource Group (ERG) had dressed in company uniforms and flanked a large company vehicle in the Pride Parade, we’d been naïve not to prepare for this onslaught-if one can ever prepare for insults and threats on the company’s dime.
Two weeks into the attacks, our ERG gathered to create a response. Like secret refugees in an underground bunker, we met off company property and off the clock. Many were scared they’d lose their jobs in an impending witch hunt. Many were angry and wanted vengeance. Some said we never should have marched. By meeting’s end, we agreed on only one action item-we would take our concerns to the highest ranking company official who would listen.
The head of human resources met us at 5pm in a company auditorium. Both LGBT and allies from their own respective ERG’s attended. First we heard a speech, very canned and polished, stating boiler plate sentiments about our great value to the company. The official pointedly never used the words “Gay,” “Lesbian” or any other relevant term.
When he opened for comments, a tsunami washed over the podium. Flanked by his HR colleagues, he stood like a wooden post listening as two themes emerged: Why did the company allow the offensive postings to continue without taking action? Why had the company treated LGBT employees differently from other employees who were protected by company policy?
Some angry employees threatened to go to the gay press, which for a company headquartered in a city known the world over as a gay Mecca, meant risking embarrassing boycotts and protests. The meeting ended on a sour emotional note when employees spontaneously stood and turned their backs on the HR official when he said, “You people have to understand that many employees disapprove of your lifestyle. Why do you force yourselves on them?”
By next morning, the employee forum was closed with this statement: “Due to inappropriate remarks posted by a small number (sic) of employees, this forum is closed.”
Many ERG members believed the removal of the employee forum punished all employees for the actions of specific employees. While eventually HR sent around a memo encouraging workplace courtesy, many employees felt the punishment did not fit the crime.
Yet, because we stood fast together as an ERG, for the first time, company officials realized that LGBT employees were a true part of the company and needed to be treated as such. As our ERG meetings grew, we became the fire that caused the company to become one of the first to grant full domestic partner benefits, including granting pension benefits to surviving domestic partners.
Today this same company remains a strong supporter of its LGBT employees and has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to causes in support of our equality. …